“The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.”
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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so, ' reducing it to a simple formula.
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
Our society is dependent on some precarious mechanisms, and they are very dicey. They can easily collapse.
